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Student Failure Causes States to Retool Testing Programs

Date: December 22, 2000

Author: Jacques Steinberg

QUOTE: Rocked by two straight years of widespread failure (88 percent of the sophomores failed the math test the previous spring, in a pilot run), state education officials have concluded that the test is too hard and have absolved any class graduating before 2004, at the earliest, of having to pass it. In retrenching on that test, and on a writing exam where scores were only marginally better, Arizona, too, has company...

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• Arizona (State Government)
• Fairtest (National Center for Fair & Open Testing)
• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Education
  • High School / Junior High
  • Local Administration/Control
  • Testing/Grades (Educational)

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Government Regulation

• North America
  • United States of America/USA
    • Alaska
    • Arizona
    • California
    • Delaware
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Ohio
    • Wisconsin

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